At release, only certain sites were allowed to use flash. They backed down on that and opened it up to all sites based on telemetry.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:10 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Silverlight on Windows 8 Seriously? What happened to the "No Plug ins" ??? Wow. Microsoft, you really know how to do a number on your tech. You want something gone, you don't mess about. The smoking gun is still in your hand! On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Joseph Cooney <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Yep. Supports flash but not Silverlight. On 28 Aug 2013 11:40, "Bill McCarthy" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I thought it does support flash |-----Original Message----- |From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:ozdotnet-<mailto:ozdotnet-> |[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Stephen Price |Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013 11:31 AM |To: ozDotNet |Subject: Re: Silverlight on Windows 8 | |Greg, |Windows 8 IE browser (the full screen metro one) does not support plugins. So no |Silverlight, no Flash etc. | |It's more commonly known as a Silverlight Coup de grâce. | |Enjoy. | | |On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: | | | Folks, I'm getting a weird conflict running Silverlight 5 apps on Windows |8. In the Metro shell's browser it knows I don't have SL5 installed on the first visit |and asks me to install a file (with x64 in the name). It then flips over to the old |shell and installs the file okay. Now SL5 is working in IE10 in the old shell, but the |Metro browser keeps asking me to install Silverlight over and over, and if you do |it says "another version is already installed". | | So there is a catch-22 dead-end. Some web searches hint that SL5 is not |supported in the Windows 8 Metro browser. I could not believe this would be |true. Is it, or am I missing some trick? | | | Greg |
